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Drudge is linking this morning to Time's 'Person of the Year' prelude, in which Brian Williams, Aretha Franklin and Stephen King put forth their noms. His headline, for a column that appeared five days ago, about a month-old story, reads "NBC News Anchor Brian Williams Picks 'Mother Earth' For Time 'Person Of Year.'" Matt, this is not like you, come come now. Perhaps you have simply worn yourself out silly on all the crazy-ass weather we've been having lately? Previously: 'Time' Person Of The Year: Might Be Less Sucky Than Last Year?
Live from Time's "Person of the Year" panel discussion going on right now at the Time and Life building: "Brian Williams' mic just cut out. 'I'll be at Chuckles on Route 3,' he says. Big laugh. Then he goes on to nominate frigging Mother Earth. Sigh."
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New Gawker T-Shirt Designed by You
Given all the accolades You have won over the past year, isn't it time we started harnessing Your enormous potential? What better use of Your talents could there be, other than designing the next Gawker t-shirt? We're not talking some namby-pamby email slogan submission this time, neither. We're getting all up in Your social media. Slogans can be entered and voted on LIVE, right in front of Your face, with Digg-style up-down votes on every candidate. After the jump, submit as many slogans as You want (though You're limited to one submission every 30 minutes). You'll be taken directly to the voting page after adding your slogan to the mix, or You can skip the sloganeering and go right to the voting. Thrill us with Your t-shirt designing acumen. More »
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Congrats, YOU Are Also the Ad Agency of the Year!
In a stunning upset, YOU—"the consumer"—have been named Ad Agency of the Year by AdAge magazine. Since YOU have already garnered recognition for your work as the Time Person of the Year, the Spin Artist of the Year , and probably countless other accolades we're as of yet unfamiliar with, we're sure this award comes as little surprise. Still, it's a nice one to add to the collection, seeing as it could portend the demise of the ad agency and Madison Ave. as we know it. Congratulations again. YOU have really done it this time. More »
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Not "You" Too, Spin!
From Spin's January issue. YouTube, MySpace, and blogs all name-checked on first big-type page. Don't take this personally, but we're really, really starting to hate You. More »
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You: Copout Meme of the Year
The apparent legacy of Time magazine choosing "You" as their 2006 "Person of the Year" seems to be a growing list of other outlets also choosing You for their "X of the Year." The latest is Fox Sports' Kevin Hench, who names You as Fan of the Year, however vaguely tongue-in-cheek (ETP points out there's no mention of Time in his article itself, just a brief note regarding same on the foxsports.com home page). Hench's piece is really just a laundry list of bad sporting from the past year, tacking You on to the front of each bullet point as examples of what 2006 fandom has endured. Let's all just calmly step away from this joke, please? Haven't You done enough? More »
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The Assimilated Negro is the issuing authority for your own personal Ghetto Pass, helping you safely navigate among the people and places of browner territories.
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Ghetto Pass Person of the Year: You, Caucasians
The Assimilated Negro is the issuing authority for your own personal Ghetto Pass, helping you safely navigate among the people and places of browner territories.
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Person of the Year: Behold Your Inner Turmoils
Still hunting in vain for a single positive reaction to Time magazine naming "You" as their 2006 "Person of the Year"? You won't find that positivism in the corpus of ubersnob George Will, who sneers, "So much of what is done on the web is people getting on there and writing their diaries as though everyone ought to care about everyone's inner turmoils." Hear hear! But even more disappointing is that the whole "You" thing (and even the whole mirror-cover thing) may have first issued forth from the hallowed pages of McCalls. Gray eminence Robert Stein writes:Thirty five years ago, McCalls Magazine ran a cover with a Mylar mirror and the line, "The Woman of the Year is You."More »
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Person of the Year: Is You or Isn't You?
In other news from Time's Person of the Year selection of "You," a small coda related to automaker Chrysler forking over millions to be the sole POTY sponsor. As Daniel Radosh points out, several of their genius ads began with the tagline "You Might Not Be Time Person of the Year." But then again, You might, and in fact, You are! Give Yourself a hand, and buy a Chevrolet while You're at it. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: You Can't Be Serious
As if anything could preclude our right to mock. Time's annual hype machine finally reached its crescendo this weekend, announcing the choice for the 2006 "Person of the Year": You. That's right — You, over there, with the face. Even if you're a fan of the abstract POTY selections (as opposed to a single person or group of people), this has to rank as the most squishy, opportunistic pick ever. See, this way they get to roll in YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia, even Web 2.0 — anything with a hint of buzz, warranted or not. And since a bunch of Yous use a lot of these tools, we're all meant to be flattered and intrigued by our collective appearance on the cover. And we were worried it might end up as "Blogs" or something silly like that. Oh well. Sorry, Stephen Colbert, it 's not you, it's You. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: Not Stephen Colbert
Fans of Stephen Colbert succeeded in making our own "Person of the Year" poll just slightly more irrelevant than the actual Person of the Year proceedings at Time magazine. Their readers are going for Hugo Chavez as of this writing, who seems about as likely as Colbert to score the Time cover. Enjoy our final results below; the actually Time POTY will be announced December 16. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: The Runoff
Scant days remain before Time magazine reveals their choice for the 2006 Person of the Year, and the excitement is palpable! Go ahead, palpate that excitement. You know you want to. In the meantime, you can submit any photo for a pretend Time POTY cover that may display above the rubes mobbing Times Square. (Send us your photos of anything interesting that pops up on that billboard, by the way.) Time is also running a reader poll, which currently puts Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the lead; Ahmadinejad is also a favorite among online bettors. However, he got scraped out of our own reader poll, narrowly missing the top-six placing required to make the runoff. After the jump, make your final POTY prediction, noting that first-round favorite Stephen Colbert already has one POTY (of a sort) under his belt. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: Everybody Drink
In the phlegmatic "race" for Time's "Person of the Year," there are multiple conflicting agendas and predictions. In particular, it's instructive to observe odds versus betting behavior on Sportsbook.com, which puts Google CEO Eric Schmidt as a 7-1 favorite. However, Schmidt has so far drawn less than 1% of votes in our own reader poll, which currently has Stephen Colbert as the favorite (insert indulgent eye-roll here). Bettors aren't interested in the sure thing though, as where's the fun (or big payoff) in that? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has drawn the most bets, taking in almost a third of total wagers so far (he's at 4% in our poll). Kim Jong-Il, at 10-1 against, has drawn 17.8% of wagers (he's at 1.5% hereabouts). For its part, Chrysler is wagering millions to be the POTY's sole corporate sponsor, a bet with long odds and little obvious payoff. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: Voters Vote for Voter
Our efforts to handicap Time's "Person of the Year" continue apace, and voting in the reader poll remains brisk. Elsewhere, this first wave of publicity has crested and rolled back, leaving only a Time-sponsored speculative nubbin (though we think it's neat that astronaut James Lovell picks Kim Jong-Il). Right now, you seem to think "The American Voter" the most likely choice, but there's plenty of space for other candidates to catch up. Poor Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani only has one vote! We'll let this race run through next week; then in anticipation of the official announcement in mid-December, we'll narrow the field to the top vote-getters for a runoff. If you haven't voted yet, do so (and inspect current results) after the jump. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: Let Us Reason Together
You'll recall our learned discussion about Time's "Person of the Year," and speculation on same. To recap, the "Person of the Year" is traditionally assigned to the person, persons, or thing that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." That gives Time a lot of room to maneuver, but note that the two big questions revolve around type (one person? a group? a thing? an abstract concept?) and quality (a "good" person versus a "bad" person?). There hasn't been a "bad" person since 1979 (Ayatollah Khomeini), and when a single person can't be picked out of the crowd, groups of a few particular persons (such as Bono and Bill and Melinda Gates, as "The Philanthropists" last year) have been recently preferred to choosing things or abstracts. More »
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'Time' Person of the Year: Who Needs People?
Last week, one of your esteemed editors was asked to blab on a CNN panel of bloggers for the purpose of speculating who Time magazine might choose as the 2006 "Person of the Year." It probably would have been much better to mention this beforehand, in order to come to the chat forearmed with a read on the current sentiment on the Gawker street. Nevertheless, the actual choices tossed around — Nancy Pelosi, George Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Donald Rumsfeld, Britney Spears — are less interesting than the process itself. Supposedly, POTY is given to whoever influenced world events the most during the past year. Trouble is, though various personalities had spikes of impact, it's hard to say any one person consistently drove events (or the news) throughout 2006. This sets up the first of two conflicts of POTY choice that Time editors and their advisory panels muddle with every year. More »
media bubble
• Now The Washington Post has a staff blogger, too. [Washingtonian]
• Jon Friedman visits an EW focus group and finds that subscribers really, really love the magazine. Freakishly so, to be honest. [MW]
• Daily News readers overwhelming think Bob Schieffer should stay on permanently as the CBS Evening News anchor, according to Richard Huff's "highly unscientific" poll. [NYDN]
• If you look really closely, you can find Warren Buffett's hand in Time's Person of the Year issue. No, it's not holding cash. [NYP]
Media Bubble: With Brownridge Going, Wenner Seeks Someone New to Bully
• Megalomaniacal Jann Wenner is now picking on Us editor Janice Min, which doesn't seem like a smart thing to do. [WWD]• Now The Washington Post has a staff blogger, too. [Washingtonian]
• Jon Friedman visits an EW focus group and finds that subscribers really, really love the magazine. Freakishly so, to be honest. [MW]
• Daily News readers overwhelming think Bob Schieffer should stay on permanently as the CBS Evening News anchor, according to Richard Huff's "highly unscientific" poll. [NYDN]
• If you look really closely, you can find Warren Buffett's hand in Time's Person of the Year issue. No, it's not holding cash. [NYP]
